JagdPanther Magazine #3

Take another journey with us back to 1973, when a small wargame club in Amarillo, Texas (led by Steve Cole) produced a magazine filled with articles, variants, and reviews. Production values had not improved, and we still printed on that insane 14" paper. (The pages are divided in half for this 32-page PDF version.)

ARTICLES included a puzzle, some club news, editorials, minis vs counters, armor miniatures, tactics in Diplomacy, some business experiments that never worked (command college for wargamers, PBEM games that few played and no one finished), a survey of game ideas, and some of the stupidest editorial drivel that Steve Cole ever published.

VARIANTS included the British Army in Gettysburg, Black Star Blue Star, UFOs in Foxbat and Phantom, the No-Normandy Option for Anzio, Zulus for Rifle & Saber, Foxboom & Bantam, Anti-aircraft for Foxbat & Phantom, Pacific theater aircraft for Luftwaffe, Realistic Midway, Panzerblitz table of organization for the 1st Marine Division, and an Origins of Vietnam variant for Origins of WW2.

The complete game was MTB (Motor Torpedo Boat) which amounted to a PT boat variant for Panzerblitz [We haven't found the maps for that game yet but will add them when we do], and a little one-page game about British swordfish torpedo planes attacking the Italian fleet. [No copies of the game Swordfish have been found so far but they will be added when we find them.]

The third of three available issues. There were 15 released back in the 70's when board and counter games were king and computer gaming was in the future. Lots of good game material especially Panzer Blitz / Panzer Leader material.
I hope they continue [...]

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